40-year-old Male with a Headache and Altered Mental Status
| Autor: | Leen Alblaihed, Laura J Bontempo, Rebecca J Rubenstein, Zachary D.W. Dezman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test Nausea business.industry Clinicopathological Cases from the University of Maryland lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid Magnetic resonance imaging Hindbrain lcsh:RC86-88.9 Emergency department Emergency Nursing Pons 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Text mining Altered Mental Status Emergency Medicine medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Differential diagnosis medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, Vol 4, Iss 4 (2020) Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine |
| ISSN: | 2474-252X |
| DOI: | 10.5811/cpcem.2020.10.49546 |
| Popis: | A 40-year-old man presents to the emergency department with headache, nausea and paresthesias, with subsequent fever and mental status change. Magnetic resonance imaging showed increased fluid-attenuation inversion recovery signal involving multiple areas of the brain, including the pons. This case takes the reader through the differential diagnosis of rhombencephalitis (inflammation of the hindbrain) with discussion of the unanticipated ultimate diagnosis and its treatment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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